Sofia Jannok

Brita Maret "Sofia" Jannok is a Swedish-Sami artist, singer, songwriter, radio host. Publicly, she has several times in social media taken a stance against the establishing of mines on the land used by reindeer herders. Together with Mariela Idivuoma, she was the hostess of the music festival Liet-Lávlut in 2006. And she has led the program series "Mailbmi - small people great music" in Swedish Radio P2. The inspiration to her music, she gets from a mixture of different musical influences, like folk, pop, jazz and yoik. She sings mostly in Northern Sami but writes as well in both Swedish and English. Sofia Jannok was previously included with Anna Kärrstedt in the duo "Sophia and Anna". And she performed in the act of Melodifestivalen 2009 with the song Waterloo in Sámi. On June 30, 2009, she was one of the summer talkers in the Swedish Radio P1, and the day after, July 1, she participated in SVT's program from Skansen in Stockholm about the inauguration of the Swedish Presidency of EU. At the national meeting opening in the Parliament House in Stockholm September 15, 2009, she performed "Samelands vidder".